Rene Archer wins 1st and 2nd from Messac 118 miles on the 02/06/12 with a 2year old Jan Aarden which was lightly raced as a yearling......
Rene also took 1st on the 19/05/12 from Carentan 62 miles with a Barker, his daughters were also 2nd in the same race where they were the only birds home on the day.....Well done to Rene and his daughters.

The N.E.H.U race from Melton Mowbray 21/4/2012 was won by Peel bros of South Shields, they took 1st club 1st fed, also taking 2nd and 4th club and 15 of the 25 birds clocked in the club......well done Peel brothers.

ybs up and away

our ybs were basketed this morning with drinker on the side then let them out in the garden they all went up and did 45 mins ....first time they been up all kitted together nicely a lot of these still have down on them from the nest ...good call I think not using one of these heavy no maize yb mixes...a good start how are other members ybs coming along

Ours are doing over the 1and a 1/2 hours now, and quite a few of the older ones are in a heavy head moult so they're doing ok , some of the later bred ones are going up to join them for about 30 minutes so we're well pleased at the minute

We've been really lucky with the weather since starting to settle the ybs, very little in the way of bad weather, no rain or bad winds to speak of, so flying time has been good for them, out most days, and the weather for the next week at least looks fair, so onward and upward, although some are moulting they seem to want to stay up without any help from us so as long as they want to fly we'll let them get on with it